#OurMoment: Celebrating Women's Leadership

From the past 100 years

Against the odds, women have created incredible change over the past 100 years. This International Women’s Day, join us in celebrating the global women’s movement by voting for the moment of feminist leadership that has inspired you most. Women's leadership, like women ourselves, comes in many forms. Recognise the moments that have shaped our lives, and the diverse women who gave so much to make them happen.

Closer to the Day, we'll highlight the moments that resonated the most, and share some you may have missed.

Featured moments

Over 30 years ago, International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) was founded by Wendy Rose, Ruth Pfanner and Wendy Poussard, based on the conviction that women should initiate, influence and improve development policy.

In 2017 we saw women's rights forums lauching across the Asia Pacific, including the Pacific Feminist Forum and the We Rise Coalition Forum in Fiji, the Jiwaka Women's Forum in Papua New Guinea, the Young Women's Leadership Forum and Women's Human Rights Defender Forum in Bougainvi

Laverne Cox, US actress and activist, becomes the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy Award, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Orange is the New Black. She also becomes the first transgender person to feature on the cover of TIME.

After founding an all-women literary magazine in 1911, Raichō Hiratsuka co-founds the New Women’s Association, which was instrumental in overturning the Japanese government’s ban on women joining political organisations or holding political meetings.

For the first time, women are granted the equal right to vote; though only if they're over the age of 30. Ten years later, a final Act passes that lets women over the age of 21 vote, in line with the age requirements for men.